Description |
viii, 250 p. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-240) and index. |
Contents |
Death, church, and family in England between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries / Ralph Houlbrooke -- Good death in seventeenth-century England / Lucinda McCray Beier -- Godly grief : individual responses to death in seventeenth-century Britain / Anne Laurence -- Death and the doctors in Georgian England / Ray Porter -- Burial question in Leeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Jim Morgan -- Why was death so big in Victorian Britain? / Ruth Richardson -- Ashes to ashes : cremation and the celebration of death in nineteenth-century Britain / Jennifer Leaney -- Two faces of death : children's magazines and their treatment of death in the nineteenth century / Diana Dixon -- Victorian unbelief and bereavement / Martha McMackin Garland -- Death, grief, and mourning in the upper-class family, 1860-1914 / Pat Jalland -- Lancashire way of death / Elizabeth Roberts. |
Subject |
Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Social history.
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Bereavement -- History.
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Added Author |
Houlbrooke, Ralph A. (Ralph Anthony), 1944-
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ISBN |
0415011655 |
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9780415011655 |
Standard No. |
UKM b8868358 |
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NLGGC 050285831 |
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NZ1 3545076 |
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